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Now matter how you slice it, 1965 is almost 50 years ago. The USA has had its share of wrongdoings against their own people, but that should not give these two race hustlers a pass. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

William Worsham

The trouble is that 1965 was 50 years ago, yet we still have so many inequalities. Part of this is government policy (always flawed), but another part is the denial that racism still exists, and would be more noticeable for a black person than a white person. So we have a "Racism? What racism?" issue.

Peter Fusscas

I remember when Dwight David Eisenhower, a Republican president elected in 1952, passed the first comprehensive civil rights legislation in American history. I remember it was opposed by Democrats in Congress. I remember when Martin Luther King, a Republican, lead the civil rights movement in America with "I Have a Dream." I remember he was violently assassinated by a Democrat where the Democrat South routinely practiced racial segregation and racial discrimination. I remember all to well that the Ku Klux Klan was a product of the Democrat-controlled South. But that history is water under the bridge of time.

Paul Friel

Your memory fails you. The Democrats in the House and the Senate of the South in 1967 were the Republicans of today. Rand Paul tried that little trick about the NAACP founders being Republicans at an all-black college in Georgia. But of course they already knew that the Republican Party in 1967 in the South are the Democrats today. Strom Thurmond, the racist from the red state of South Carolina was the epitome of today's Republican base, according to most young Republicans today. James Earl Ray was one of those southern Democrats ... a.k.a. today's Republican.

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ONLINE COMMENTSLetter: 'Criticism of Jackson, Sharpton unjustified' Dolores MalafisNow matter how you slice it, 1965 is almost 50 years ago. The USA has had its share of wrongdoings against their own